Wouldn't there be ...


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Wouldn't there be three pod people in the form of Elizabeth? She was replicated when she was still living with Jeffrey. She was in blue pajamas sleeping in her bed, but then there was a nude pod person formed in her yard or balcony. When Matthew rushes over there and the cops are there too, her nude pod person has disappeared.

Then she's replicated again when she, Jack, and Nancy are all camping out at Matthew's apartment. In Matthew's yard, you see a replica of him, Elizabeth, Jack and Nancy. Matthew was about to strike Elizabeth's replica with a garden hoe but can't bring himself do it. He does, however, bludgeon his own replica with the hoe. Finally, in the field near the ship. She falls asleep and is quickly transformed. We see her nude replica and then we see her again (nude!) in the pod nursery. Finally, we see one of her three incarnations at work in a lab coat. Am I missing something or would she have been cloned three times?

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Waking up cuts off the podification process. Elizabeth's earliest incarnation in bed would just collapse to dust, as would the one in Matthew's garden. Only the nudie by the sea would be seen in the lab.

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So Matthew bludgeoning his clone with the garden hoe was completely unnecessary?

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Yes, and it only made matters worse. The pod people could sense when one of their own was getting harmed, and so Matthew's cleaving his clone open (over and above his naive phone call that gave away their location) caused the rampaging chase that sacrificed Jack. Emotion overruled common sense.

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Ahh, interesting, JillCarrow89. The more I talk about this movie, the more I learn that it's one of those more-than-meets-the-eye kinds of films.

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